Huawei remains the world’s largest phone maker, but Samsung is catching up fast


Immediately after the bomb report that Counterpoint Research market analysts made in April, where Huawei overtook Samsung to become the world’s largest phone maker by shipments, now comes The one from last month.

Yes, Huawei remains number one, despite the geopolitical bad luck it had in the last year or so, seeing it deprived of Google services and forced to use AOSP Android on their phones.

However, the percentage point market share before Samsung has dropped significantly compared to the previous report, and now Huawei makes 19.7% of the world’s phones, a very small difference from Samsung’s 19.6%, by which can lose pole position in the summer.

Still, it’s a remarkable achievement for a company that in 2018 was guaranteeing become the world’s largest phone maker by 2020, before the whirlwind of bans and restrictions hits its global business lines. At the time, it seemed like pride, now it’s a reality, and Huawei will have at least that goal covered to calm the geopolitical situation while waiting for better news on the Android front.

In addition to Huawei’s not-so-sisyphean climb to the top, given that it took just a year and a half and a bit of record-breaking periscope zoom or foldable prank antics, Apple rounds out the top three list, followed by BBK holding Oppo and Vivo giants with 8% each, then Xiaomi, again with 8% market share. All the others are grouped into the “others” category which is undoubtedly the largest piece of the pie now.